Henry Ford Quotes

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Henry Ford

A handful of men have become very rich by paying attention to details that most others ignored.
Henry Ford

Few people dare get into business because, deep down, they say to themselves: ‘Why should I put such and such a product on the market when somebody else is producing it already?’ As for me, I’ve always said: ‘Why not do better?’ And that’s what I did.
Henry Ford

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

Most people think of it in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
Henry Ford

I’m looking for people who have the infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
Henry Ford

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
Henry Ford

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.
Henry Ford

One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

There is joy in work… There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.
Henry Ford

All that money can do is buy us some one else’s work in exchange for our own.
Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire the man, not his history.
Henry Ford

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it’s black.
Henry Ford

Let a man start out in life to build something better and sell it cheaper than it has been built or sold before, let him have that determination and the money will roll in.
Henry Ford

A company needs smart young men with the imagination and the guts to turn everything upside down if they can. It also needs old figures to keep them from turning upside down those things that ought to be rightside up.
Henry Ford